More than 25 feet (762 cm) of snow in many areas
https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/829016553962221568
Thanks to H.B. Schmidt for these links
“From drought to flooding, now the Lake Oroville Dam spillway has been compromised and in need of repair,” says H.B. “No imminent threat of the dam failing but WDR will be keeping an eye on the situation and doing its best to continuously assess the threat.”
Current incoming water to Lake Oroville: 80,000 cfs
Current outgoing flow from Lake Oroville: 10,000 cfs
“Lake Tahoe Gained 8.7 Billion Gallons Of Water In Just 2 Days” http://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/02/07/lake-tahoe-gained-8-7-billion-gallons-water-2-days/#3209084c36c6
Given that the region that is now the southwest U.S. was much wetter during the glacial period, is this a sign of things to come? and that the ice age is near as Robert predicts?
I read lake oroville had 190,000 cubic ft of water flood in in the last 24 hours and its releasing 40,000cubic ft every 24 hours. Saturday the emergency spillway is going to be opened.
The main spillway is eroding rapidly while inflow into the reservoir is now around 120,000 cuft per second and current outflows are @ 65,000 cuft per second.
Water levels are now approaching 4 ft of the emergency spillway that they are afraid to use.
Could be a close one.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-oroville-erodes-explainer-20170210-story.html